Carved wooden ceremonial staff

Carved wooden ceremonial staff

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Carved wooden staff, ceremonal, finial in the form of a waterfowl, taken from Benin before the bombardment, 1897, Benin City, Southern Nigeria, 1880-1897

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A160462
Materials:
wood
type:
staffs
credit:
Sothebys